A quick post about transparency – the good and bad implications – my  blog post on AIIM Communites

I was fortunate enough to attend the Google Atmosphere conference last week in London. My top 3 take aways were:

Cloud computing is a reality here and now, and is being used by businesses to reduce cost and redeploy expertise in a strategic manner
Even if your business is not considering how cloud computing can be used [...]

LocalGovCamp, an unconference for local government,  happened this last weekend (Saturday 20th June) – what an astonishing turnout -more than 130 people from Local Govt came along on a Saturday to talk about the future of local government, citizen engagement, smarter working and more…
Here is an interview by @davidwilcox with @carlhaggerty and @robgray (me) at [...]

Good, clear presentation from the straight-talking analyst David Tebbutt on why social networking for business is a useful thing.
The actual presentation notes are also quite useful – click on the little slideshare icon if you want to view the notes. It’s a pity I can’t embed them…
The Business Value of Social Networking 
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I recently did a short piece of work with the exec team of a large global organisation that is very knowledge centric. Although they have a desire to become more innovative, their sheer size means that this is a long-term undertaking.  At the beginning of this project, we were gathering some information and ideas about [...]

On Friday we had a round table discussion related to enterprise social networking (some may refer to enterprise 2.0). Some best practices from real world projects emerged, and there were some excellent questions that raised the discussion level.
Thanks to Bertrand for contributing to this list. Check out his advice on this blog post
For those unfamiliar [...]

On Nov 13th we had a launch event for blueKiwi 2009 in Paris. I was amazed that we got 400 registrations in the first 2 weeks, with place for 200 people. Anyway, a bit of deft eventmanship from the marketing folks meant we had a packed venue and loads of buzz…
We had 2 great opening [...]

2.0hhhh
These days we are flooded by a plethora of 2.0 stuff aren’t we?…. Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, BI 2.0 Outsourcing 2.0,eCommerce 2.0, Resourcing 2.0, Project Management 2.0, Recruitment 2.0, Jake 2.0, KM 2.0, Library 2.0, Health 2.0, President 2.0, Government 2.0, Retail 2.0, Search 2.0, Mobile 2.0, Lift Trucks 2.0, or why not buy a [...]

We are running an event on 28th November at the IoD in London.
It’s a bit of an introductory session to Enterprise Social Networking / Enterprise 2.0 etc. including some learnings from some of our large corporate projects. These learnings are relevant regardless of the technology that you use.
Register here
(posted by Rob Gray)

This is a presentation I did this week at the Butler Group Enterprise Web 2.0 Strategies Event. The point of the presentation  is how to reduce costs in a time of crisis, but also don’t forget about innovating.
I’ve adapted the presentation to be shown online, with commentary on the slides where I would have been [...]